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7th Language at the University of Essex Postgraduate Conference Wednesday 13 - Thursday 14 June 2012 University of Essex, Colchester, UK

The Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex invites you to its seventh postgraduate two-day conference which will be held at the University of Essex on Wednesday 13 - Thursday 14 June 2012. Language at the University of Essex Postgraduate Conference [LangUE] is an annual event which aims at bringing together postgraduate students to present and discuss current research, results and problems from various fields of linguistics. The format of the conference includes the presentation of papers, posters, workshops and a plenary panel.

Invited Plenary Speakers:

We are pleased to announce Prof. Simon Borg (University of Leeds) and Dr. Nigel Harwood (University of Essex) as this year's plenary speakers.

Registration:

Information regarding registration will be available on the website in due course.

Call for Papers:

Abstracts of no more than 250 words are invited on any topic in linguistics. The deadline for receipt of abstracts for oral presentations or poster presentations and workshops is Sunday 4 March 2012.

Please send your abstract to langueessex.ac.uk.

All abstracts should be in accordance with the formatting guidelines laid out in the 'LangUE 2012 Abstract Submission Form'. This document and further details are also available on the website:

Note that no late submissions will be accepted. All submissions will be peer-reviewed.

Proceedings:

Submission to the 'Proceedings of the LangUE' will be invited from all those who present their work at the LangUE 2012. Submissions must be emailed to langueessex.ac.uk by the date of the conference, and revised papers may be submitted in the two weeks following the conference (to allow for revisions following comments/discussion at the conference). Proceedings guidelines will be available through the website shortly. The proceedings will be published online.

We would be grateful if you could forward this email to other research students in your department and anyone else who may be interested in presenting or attending the conference. Thank you.